Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen · OverDrive: eBooks, audiobooks and videos for libraries Classic Literature Fiction Literature January 28, 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen' s Pride and Prejudice, one of the most beloved books of all time. Pride and Prejudice: 200th Anniversary Edition commemorates this anniversary by bringing together adaptations of Jane Austen' s work, reviews, the author' s biography, and her inspiration for Pride and Prejudice in one digital volume. In addition to the enduring novel, Pride and Prejudice: 200th Anniversary Edition includes dramatic adaptations of a selection of scenes from Pride and Prejudice by Rosina Filippi; a dramatization of the novel by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye; reviews of Jane Austen' s work by noted literary figures of the day; a review of Pride and Prejudice by O.W. Firkins; and A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen' s own nephew.

Also included is an excerpt from Cecilia by Frances Burney, featuring the passage that served as the influence for the title of Pride and Prejudice. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. Adobe EPUB eBook 1 MB Jane Austen (Author) Born in 1775, Jane Austen published four of her six novels anonymously. Her work was not widely read until the late nineteenth century, and her fame grew from then on. Known for her wit and sharp insight into social conventions, her novels about l... Not Bad For A Trunk Novel: The Quick History of Pride & Prejudice | Quirk Books : Publishers & Seekers of All Things Awesome Not Bad For A Trunk Novel: The Quick History of Pride & Prejudice Image via Etsy January 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice .

What you might not know is that Austen wrote the book, to which she first gave the apt but much less memorable title First Impressions, nearly two decades before it was published. In other words, Pride and Prejudice, a seminal work of literature that has influenced nearly every romantic comedy ever published or filmed, was Jane Austen’s trunk novel. We authors could wish that our own literary trunks contain such a gem. Cassandra Austen, Jane’s older sister and her literary executor, left a note with the dates of composition for each novel. She indicated that First Impressions was begun in October 1796 and finished in August 1797. In November 1797, J ane’s father wrote a letter to the London publisher Thomas Cadell , offering First Impressions for publication. It’s not the most compelling query letter ever written by any means, but no doubt Mr. Austen’s heart was in the right place. We do not know if he wrote the letter of his own volition or at the bidding of his daughter, as it was the usual practice for a male relative to act for a woman in business matters; nor do we know if any other publishers were approached.

We only know that the offer was “declined by return of post,” as indicated on the letter. Despite this early failure, First Impressions was extremely popular among Austen’s friends and family. In her letters, Austen mentions requests to read the manuscript from her sister Cassandra and her friend Martha Lloyd, and even teases Cassandra (knowing the teasing will be passed on to her friend) that Martha only wanted to read the novel again so that she might commit it to memory and publish it herself. Austen had already written an early version of Sense and Sensibility , an epistolary novel that she called Elinor and Marianne; after completing First Impressions, she rewrote Elinor and Marianne in narrative style, and started on Susan, the novel that would be published after her death, with a renamed heroine, as Northanger Abbey . Austen worked on another novel, now known as The Watsons, which she abandoned around the time of her father’s death in 1805.

She does not seem to have written for several years after this time--a time of uncertainty, as the Austen sisters and their widowed mother did not have a settled home of their own, and moved to various unsatisfactory places in Bath, as well as sharing a home with Jane’s brother Frank, a naval officer, and his wife in Southampton. Austen actually sold Susan to a publisher, who advanced her ten pounds, but oddly never actually published the book. In 1809, Jane Austen, along with her mother, her sister, and Martha Lloyd, moved to a cottage in the village of Chawton in Hampshire, now a museum . The cottage was owned by Jane’s brother Edward, who had inherited several estates and a large fortune from a rich, childless cousin. With a secure place to live in the country she loved, Jane began writing again in earnest.

First, the trunk novels: she polished Elinor and Marianne, retitled it Sense and Sensibility (which Austen scholar Deirdre Le Faye writes could have been taken from an essay in the periodical The Lady’s Monthly Museum), and had her brother Henry approach a publisher he knew, Thomas Egerton, who agreed to publish Sense and Sensibility at the author’s expense. Either Henry, who was a banker, put up the money to publish the book, or the publisher paid for the publication, but expected to be reimbursed for any money he lost on the transaction; in any event, Austen put away as much as could from her own small yearly allowance to cover any shortfall. Happily, the book was a hit, and made Austen 140 pounds profit. Austen then set about rewriting First Impressions. Cassandra Austen’s note indicates that her sister made “additions and contractions” to the manuscript; Jane Austen herself wrote more lightheartedly in a letter that she “lop’t and crop’t” the original.

(And no, the longer version does not survive, much to the consternation of Team Darcy.) A book with the title First Impressions had been published during the book’s long gestation period, so Austen chose another title, an alliterative pairing like that of her first novel, and probably taken from the final chapter of one of Austen’s favorite novels, Fanny Burney’s Cecilia : "The whole of this unfortunate business," said Dr Lyster, "has been the result of PRIDE and PREJUDICE.” Based on the strong sales of Sense and Sensibility, Egerton offered Austen 110 pounds for the copyright of the new book. That was not an unusual arrangement at that time. Austen would give up future royalties, but the publisher took on all risk and expense of publication. The 110 pounds was guaranteed, and for all Jane knew, she might hit a sophomore slump with this second novel and lose her little S&S nest egg. She wrote in a letter that she would have preferred 150 pounds, but would settle for the lesser amount.

Pride and Prejudice received approving reviews and was an immediate hit, making lots of money for the publisher, but unfortunately the author herself never received more than that 110 pounds. However, it is clear that she was fond of the book, and proud of its popularity. She wrote of the novel’s heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, “I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least I do not know.” Generations of fans have fulfilled Jane Austen’s expectations, elevating Elizabeth and Darcy into iconhood and Pride and Prejudice into one of the most popular novels ever written, with dozens of films, stage plays, sequels, prequels, retellings, parodies, zombifications, and homages to its credit; its influence on popular culture has continued for 200 years and is still going strong. Not bad at all for a trunk novel.

share this article: The Postmodern Phenomenon | The Smart Set The Postmodern Phenomenon By Paula Marantz Cohen Simple, unadulterated pleasure January 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I’ve been reading P&P (as those of us on intimate terms with the work sometimes refer to it) for 40 years, a fifth of its life. This puts me in a position to say something about its rise in popularity over the course of this period. Jane Austen has always had her fans, and Pride and Prejudice has always been the favorite of her novels, but in the last four decades (roughly coincident with the so-called “postmodern era”), Austen has achieved stardom and P&P, blockbuster status. What is it about Jane Austen — and Pride and Prejudice in particular — that meshes so well with our postmodern culture? Here are 10 reasons: 1) Visual potential. Postmodern culture is visual, and though Jane Austen is a consummate literary stylist, her novels are superbly cinematic — P&P, especially so.

It’s as if Austen had her eye on the option when she wrote: The plot is simple and easy to translate to the screen; there are sprightly protagonists and juicy character roles; the period locales are relatively simple to re-create and sumptuous to look at (i.e. well-furnished country houses, manicured lawns and bucolic walks, Empire dresses, frock coats and breeches); and there is plentiful and pithy dialogue. Given the adaptations that currently exist, we can now spend hours arguing over the relative merits of the BBC P&P (the general favorite), the problematic but, to some, irresistible, Keira Knightley version, and the 1940 Greer Garson-Laurence Olivier Hollywood treatment in which Lady de Bourgh (Edna May Oliver) is represented as a lovable old codger who is on Darcy’s side all along. (I confess — I love it!). In discussing P&P adaptations, there will always be the inevitable detour into extolling the adorableness of Colin Firth (Fitzwilliam Darcy in the BBC version and also Mark Darcy in the P&P update, Bridget Jones’s Diary).

If Jane Austen is a brand and P&P, the best-selling product, Colin Firth is the star salesman in the franchise. Yes, he’s getting long in the tooth, but that only means he can be cast as Mr. Bennet in the next adaptation. 2) Internet fodder. The accumulation of speculation and secondary material about Jane Austen has resulted in a healthy life online. There are YouTube clips, fan blogs, twitter feeds, Facebook postings, and other manners of outreach. This seems only right. Jane Austen was into the sort of minutiae that the Internet thrives on — her canvas, “that little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which on which I work with so fine a brush,” is ideal for microscopic parsing. 3) The bridge between high and low. In a society much divided, P&P is a work that unifies. While it’s true that reading the novel requires a degree of literacy and patience that many Americans lack, watching the screen adaptations is a truly egalitarian activity.

The movies bring in both the high-brow audience who normally only go to films with subtitles, and the chick flick audience, who like movies that star Mila Kunis and Gerard Butler (both of whom will surely star in the next adaptation, when Colin Firth plays Mr. Bennet). Pride and Prejudice can even dissolve boundaries between red state and blue. Is Elizabeth a feminist avant la lettre or a traditionalist with a good sense of humor? Is Darcy an elitist patriarch who needs to be toppled from his pedestal, or a conservative stalwart who brings the benighted Elizabeth into the fold? The answer remains ambiguous — which allows everyone, right-leaning and left, to be happy. 4) Good subject for critical speculation — a corollary of #3. If John Donne was the favored author for New Critics, lending himself to complicated close reading, Austen is ideal for postmodern critics, who can use her to say anything they want. Austen’s world is so circumscribed that it’s relatively easy to “go to the margins,” in postmodern parlance, and find something cool to work with.

One of the most dramatic forays in this regard was the 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park that turned the novel into a pseudo-bio-pic, transforming the pallid heroine, Fanny Price, into a feminist aspiring writer, and took time out to explore the atrocities of the slave trade in the West Indies (where the patriarch, Thomas Musgrove, goes to oversee his business at a crucial juncture in the novel). 5) Good subject for updating and creative pastiche. Also in the postmodern spirit is the way Austen’s plots, and P&P in particular, have been used in books like Bridget Jones’s Diary, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Death Comes to Pemberley, and my own Jane Austen in Boca. These books show how well suited Austen is for modernization — or should I say, postmodernization (another corollary of #3). I wrote Jane Austen in Boca because P&P simply cried out to be set in a Jewish retirement community in Boca Raton, Florida, the Bennet sisters transformed into elderly Jewish widows. The book (almost titled Pride and Prune Danish) practically wrote itself. 6) Book club staple.

One of the reasons why P&P has skyrocketed in its sales has to do with the rise of book club culture, another postmodern phenomenon: Reading, once a solitary activity, has become a group activity. P&P happens to be the ideal book club book. It provides a non-threatening opportunity for book club members to indulge what they have really come to book club for: To complain about wayward children, difficult parents, neglectful spouses, and oddly-behaving friends, all of which are present in the novel (and thus allowing for #7 below). There is also a metonymic aspect to P&P that is very po-mo: The social interaction at Longbourn resembles the social interaction of book club; i.e., a female-dominated group which engages in mannerly, domestic chatter with an edge, and where refreshments like scones, finger sandwiches, and punch (occasionally spiked) are served. The success of The Jane Austen Book Club, which took reading Jane Austen and made it its subject, demonstrates that we are already at the meta-Jane Austen stage.

Moreover, owing to the plethora of screen adaptations, lazy book club members can watch the movie (or BBC serial) and either pretend to have read the book or steer the conversation to the adorableness of Colin Firth. 7) Self-help manual. In our self-help culture, Austen can hold her own nicely. There is plenty of advice percolating through the pages of P&P, if you know how to look. It is easy enough to transmute balls and country walks into keg parties and coffee dates at Starbucks. Guidance on how to handle being snubbed or jilted is useful in any time period. But Austen’s most important lessons are larger in scope — they have to do with judgment and setting priorities. When Elizabeth Bennet visits her sick sister by traipsing through the mud, she has placed the value of caring for Jane above the state of her gown. The narrow-minded, morally stunted Miss Bingley is appalled, but Darcy, whose moral sense, despite his arrogant manners, is well-developed, begins falling in love with Elizabeth on the spot.

P&P is about the importance of respecting the rules, but also about the occasional necessity of breaking them — something that all of us good-girl Jane Austen readers need to remember. Another great lesson in P&P is how not to parent. Just note everything Mrs. Bennet says and don’t say it. There’s the added benefit of knowing that no matter how annoying and embarrassing we are to our progeny, we are not as annoying and as embarrassing as she is. 8) Philosophical treatise. P&P, for all its surface delights, is also a profound book. It examines the nature of individual identity, the implications of gender roles, the tension between nature and nurture, and of course, that old chestnut: The disparity between appearance and reality. Here is where Austen and Shakespeare are akin — they both tackle large and deep subjects that can never be fully plumbed. Every age finds a place to dig in Jane Austen (the post-colonialists have done some new spade work in the margins, as noted above) but the old excavation sites are always worth revisiting. 9) Inspiration for writers. This is a difficult time for writers, and Austen can be helpful here too.

In my mind’s eye, I see her slipping the pages of her manuscript under her blotter whenever someone (other than her sister) came into the drawing room. It is an inspirational image of how it is possible to write, even in the most unpropitious circumstances. One can also think about how P&P, for all its apparent ease and perfection, had to undergo extensive revision to arrive as the “light and bright and sparkling” work that now exists for posterity. We know that the novel started as an early mature (or perhaps late juvenile) work entitled First Impressions. This did not find a publisher. More than ten years later, Austen revised it into something akin to what we know and finally saw it published in 1813. For a writer, this is a helpful reminder that writing is solitary and often disappointing, that we can pick up old work, rework it, and possibly, though not assuredly, see it find readers at last. Northanger Abbey, another early work, did not get published until after Austen’s death. 10) A good read. It is a casualty of our visual culture that good books seem to be hard books.

Literary modernism, which ushered in the difficult novel, also marked the beginning of movies, which put books on the defensive (much as photography did with painting). But many of us who were reared on hard books are tired. We are drawn to novels that have substance but don’t wear their difficulty on their sleeve. P&P warrants re-reading not just because it is great but because it is fun. You can curl up with a bottle of claret and a box of truffles — or a six-pack and a bag of Doritos —and read it for nothing other than simple, unadulterated pleasure. • 28 December 2012 The 28th Jan 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of publishing Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. Home » Blog » 200 Years of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice 200 Years of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Si Salter January 28, 2013 Blog No Comments The 28th of January 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the publishing of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

The classic British novel is set in the fictitious town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, England . The story tells of Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters and their coming of age in a society restricted by strict ideas of etiquette, morality and the “accepted” behavior of young ladies. The tale follows Elizabeth’s search for love and happiness as she makes her way through the mine field of social gatherings and social circles. The book has sold over 20 million copies and been adapted for film and television several times. Jane Austen Books – Photo by Thalita Carvalho (on Flickr) Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice Attractions Fans of the much loved book can visit the area where the book was set and where Jane Austen lived while writing it. Jane Austen lived in Bath, wrote the novel while in Chawton and is buried in Winchester. If you’re in London you can see original manuscripts, Austen’s writing desk and her spectacles. Bath, Somerset Visit No.4 Sydney Place where Austen lived from 1801-1804 and at St. Swithen Church you can see where George Austen (Jane’s father) is buried.

Her novels Persuasion and Northanger Abbey are set in Bath and you can wander the streets mentioned in the books. At the Jane Austen Center you can have tea in the Regency era tea room and be guided by costumed guides around the center which has all things Austen. Chawton, Hampshire Visit the restored Chawton Cottage, The Jane Austen House Museum , which is furnished with personal items that would have been here during Jane’s stay in the cottage. To celebrate the Pride and Prejudice anniversary there is an in-house exhibition (The Story of Pride and Prejudice 21/1/2013 – 31/05/2013) about the novel, its history and includes handwritten letters from Austen to her sister. Another special event will be the Pride and Prejudice Reading Relay held on 17th May 2013 when the entire book will be read. On Easter Monday (01/04/2013) you can see scenes from Pride and Prejudice performed in the museum garden.

Throughout 2013 The Jane Austen House Museum will be holding workshops, lectures, recitals, costume exhibitions and events in honor of the 200th anniversary. Jane’s mother and sister are buried in the graveyard of St. Nicholas Church. Take the Circular Walk through the countryside from Jane’s home in Chawton to Farringdon to follow in Jane’s footsteps. There is a Jane Austen Trail from Alton High Street to Chawton which passes through places she would have frequented. In the area there are organized bus tours which explore Chawton and Steventon. Jane Austen’s House – Photo by Charles D P Miller (on Flickr) Winchester, Hampshire You can visit Jane’s home here but it is a private residence so it is not possible to enter the house. Jane Austen is buried under Winchester Cathedral , her tomb and a memorial brass tablet and window can be seen in the cathedral. Steventon, Hampshire Austen wrote the first draft of Pride and Prejudice in her home in Steventon where she was born and spent the first 25 years of her life. She would have shopped in Andover, Alresford and Alton and attended social gatherings in Vyne.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire From 21st to 23rd June there will be a Pride and Prejudice Festival at the University of Cambridge. Do you love Pride and Prejudice? What was you favourite adaptation? We would love to hear from you. Pride and Prejudice - Fraser Valley Regional Library Fraser Valley Regional Library Details January 28, 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen' s Pride and Prejudice, one of the most beloved books of all time. Pride and Prejudice: 200th Anniversary Edition commemorates this anniversary by bringing together adaptations of Jane Austen' s work, reviews, the author' s biography, and her inspiration for Pride and Prejudice in one digital volume. In addition to the enduring novel, Pride and Prejudice: 200th Anniversary Edition includes dramatic adaptations of a selection of scenes from Pride and Prejudice by Rosina Filippi; a dramatization of the novel by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye; reviews of Jane Austen' s work by noted literary figures of the day; a review of Pride and Prejudice by O.W.

Firkins; and A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen' s own nephew. Also included is an excerpt from Cecilia by Frances Burney, featuring the passage that served as the influence for the title of Pride and Prejudice. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. Release date: January 8, 2013 EPUB eBook Release date: January 8, 2013 4 of 4 copies available Available formats Languages English January 28, 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen' s Pride and Prejudice, one of the most beloved books of all time. Pride and Prejudice: 200th Anniversary Edition commemorates this anniversary by bringing together adaptations of Jane Austen' s work, reviews, the author' s biography, and her inspiration for Pride and Prejudice in one digital volume.

In addition to the enduring novel, Pride and Prejudice: 200th Anniversary Edition includes dramatic adaptations of a selection of scenes from Pride and Prejudice by Rosina Filippi; a dramatization of the novel by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye; reviews of Jane Austen' s work by noted literary figures of the day; a review of Pride and Prejudice by O.W. Firkins; and A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen' s own nephew. Also included is an excerpt from Cecilia by Frances Burney, featuring the passage that served as the influence for the title of Pride and Prejudice. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. Release date: January 8, 2013 EPUB eBook Recommend this title to the library If this title is purchased: Place me on its wait list and email me when my hold is available. Notify me by email but don't place me on its wait list. Email address is required and must match.

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In honor of the special occasion, the Free Library is hosting “Pride and Prejudice at 200,” a day-long celebration of the novel at the Parkway Central Library, neighborhood libraries around the city and online at freelibrary.org. See below for the lowdown on the day’s events, and stay tuned at freelibrary.org for more info on the day’s activities. Digital Exhibition: The Print and Picture Collection at Parkway Central will curate a digital exhibition on freelibrary.org with images of Jane Austen and illustrations depicting the time period. Special Twitter Feed: Follow @DigitalMrDarcy on Twitter as he makes his way to Philadelphia while observing modern life (which he often finds vexing). Film Screening of the 2005 adaptation of Pride And Prejudice: Catch Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy on the big screen as the Parkway Central Library will screen the movie on screens in the lobby throughout the day, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. First Editions display in the Rare Book Department: Head to the 4th floor at 11 a.m. for an impressive display of the first American editions of other Austen classics, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey during Monday’s public tour of the department.

Pop-Up Performances: Beginning in the late afternoon, customers at Parkway Central will be entertained by pop-up performances by the Old Academy Players. Actors will perform scenes from Pride and Prejudice. Literary Salon: Bring along your copy of Pride and Prejudice and participate in a Literary Salon in Room 108 at 6 p.m. Pride and Prejudice: Past, Present, and Future: In Room 108 at 7:30 p.m., Elizabeth Steele, Vice-President for Conferences of The Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), will present a discussion on the important of Pride and Prejudice throughout its 200 years.

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Firkins; and A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen’s own nephew. Also included is an excerpt from Cecilia by Frances Burney, featuring the passage that served as the influence for the title of Pride and Prejudice. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. Buy the eBook Unavailable in United States This item can't be purchased in United States. Shop from United States to see titles available to you. 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s Emma 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s Emma Tuesday 16 Dec, 2014 Jane Austen fans are in for another anniversary treat next year. Hot on the successful heels of Pride and Prejudice’s bicentennial anniversary in 2013 comes that of Emma, the story of the young, genteel Emma Woodhouse setting herself up as a matchmaker.

Published in December 1815, it’s a lively comedy of manners that looks at the concerns and trials of refined women in early 19th-century England. The novel’s anniversary means it’s a good time for Austen fans to visit Jane Austen’s house, Chawton, near Alton in Hampshire, south England – around an hour by train from London. The charming house was where she spent the last eight years of her life and it’s where she did the majority of her mature writing. She wrote Emma here, as well as Mansfield Park and Persuasion, in addition to revising Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey. Now called the Jane Austen’s House Museum, it runs a programme of events throughout the year to keep even the most ardent of Austen aficionados happy! Every year the museum celebrates the author’s birthday on 16 December with free entry, hot drinks and mince pies for visitors. And although the full programme for 2015 has yet to be announced, going on Austen’s birthday is a rather nice time to visit, especially for Emma fans, which itself was published in December.

2015 will see the museum running book-making workshops, historic food workshops and writing workshops. Since it’s 200 years since the publication of Emma, one of the workshops in May, ‘Building the Village of your Story’, will look at how the village of a story can help with plotting, managing a cast of characters, building tension and creating a sense of place – much like was done in Emma. Emma, like most heroines in Jane Austen novels, adored a ball. And what better way to celebrate the novel’s publication then donning your finest Regency outfit and heading to the beautiful city of Bath in west England for the Regency costumed Summer Ball. It plays a fun part in the city’s annual Jane Austen Festival. In 2015, the festival will run between 11-20 September. Empire-line gowns and bonnets at the ready! Bath is certainly the place to visit if you want to embroil yourself in all things Austen – the author lived there between 1801 and 1805, and features regularly in her writings.

Head to the city’s Jane Austen Centre for exclusive films, costumes, temporary and permanent exhibits, maps and books all dedicated to the life and times of Austen. Plus you can channel your inner Emma as the centre offers visitors the chance to dress up in Regency bonnets, top hats, shawls, fans and parasols! Bath is around 90 minutes by train from London. The picturesque village of Evershot in Dorset, south-west England, a village of thatched cottages and charming 400-year old inns, played the role of Highbury Village in the film. Explore the area and then stay in the luxury country house hotel Summer Lodge, a Grade II-listed building set in four acres of land; it’s easy to imagine yourself stepping back in time in these atmospheric surroundings. ( ). Evershot is around 3.5 hours drive from London. And, if you loved the film’s elegant ball scenes, visit Claydon House in Buckinghamshire, where the Crown ball interiors scene was filmed.

Cared for by the National Trust, this idyllic country estate, just under two hours’ drive from London, is packed with ornate and lavish 18th-century English interiors that the original owner Sir Ralph Verney intended to wow his neighbours and political rivals with. For more information contact: Jane Austen stamps go on sale | Books | The Guardian Jane Austen Jane Austen stamps go on sale All six published novels are included in the Royal Mail stamps issued to mark the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice The Royal Mail stamps featuring all six published Jane Austen novels will go on sale from today. Photograph: Royal Mail/PA Press Association Close This article is 3 years old A set of stamps featuring illustrations of Jane Austen novels goes on sale today, including newly-commissioned artwork depicting scenes from her books. All six published novels are included in the new stamps, which are being issued to mark the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice.

The Royal Mail also announced that letters posted in Chawton in Hampshire, where Austen spent her last years, and Steventon, near Basingstoke, where she was born, will have a special postmark for a week, featuring the Pride and Prejudice quote "Do anything rather than marry without affection". Two first-class stamps will have illustrations from Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, with images from Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion making up the six-stamp set. Royal Mail commissioned the artwork by Angela Barrett. Royal Mail stamps spokesman Andrew Hammond said: "When you think of great British authors, Jane Austen inevitably comes to mind. Her novels have contributed immeasurably to British culture over the last two centuries." Many events have been planned this year to celebrate the bicentenary of the author's best loved novel. Published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice was Austen's second novel and she described it as her "own darling child". Eldridge Plays & Musicals From the novel by Jane Austen 10 m, 16 w, many extras. With doubling 8 m, 11 w.

Script: 76 pages. About 90 minutes. (2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of the novel) Jane Austen's timeless tale of romantic love touched by pride and prejudice is brought to the stage in this adaptation conceived especially for schools and small theatres. All the components of the novel remain: romance, love, rivalry, friendship and the many foibles and delights of family. While the clash between the lively Elizabeth and the arrogant Darcy remains at the heart of the play, love in all its many facets dominate all of the charactersï¿½ lives. The play remains faithful to the marital rites and manners of Regency England as courtships are explored, broken, reunited and ignited. The play's many locales are done with minimal effort by dividing your playing space into three areas with the characters moving quickly and easily through the different locations. #8385 Pride and Prejudice *****CUSTOMER COMMENTS***** ï¿½We had great fun producing this drama. We had over 40 students in the cast and crew.

Producing a period piece is often challenging, but the students did a wonderful job.ï¿½ B.K., Director, Central Baptist Christian Academy, Binghamton, NY ***** "My students did a fantastic job! The audience loved it! I was a bit worried when my Elizabeth still didn't know all 200+ lines when we started tech week, but she pulled it off. I read three other P&P scripts from other publishers, but the Eldridge one had a great flow and was pretty true to Austen's book." --R.C., Geneva School of Boerne, TX

Question: 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of which Jane Austen novel?
Answer: PRIDE & PREJUDICE